The Mount Holyoke College Physiology Department Records consist of brochures; programs; outlines; articles; memoranda; lists; reports; correspondence; drawings; examinations; manuals; press releases; and photographs. The records contain information about conferences and lectures and other special events in the department, including plans for the Centennial Celebration exhibit in 1937 and other exhibits. Also contained in the records is information regarding subjects covered in undergraduate physiology courses, courses given by the department, and major curriculum. Memoranda pertaining to occupations for women in the study of physiology at the time of Word War II is held in the records. Articles contained in the records include "Episodes in the History of Physiology at Mount Holyoke" by Abby Howe Turner and a published article about physiology programs in American women's colleges. The annual reports of the department to the President of the College are also included in the records, and these contain information pertaining to enrollment trends, courses in the department, faculty publications, faculty and graduate research, conferences, facilities and equipment, lectures, alumnae occupations and activities, aims of the department, changes in personnel, texts, examinations, needs of the department, Clapp Laboratory, Masters' thesis topics, honor paper topics, and changes in curriculum. Correspondence is not extensive and pertains mainly to Charlotte Haywood's liver experiments. Correspondence is chiefly between faculty members at Mount Holyoke and faculty members at other institutions. The course records contained in the records consist of drawings, course examinations, Master's examinations, honor examinations, and laboratory manuals. Photographs chiefly depict classroom and laboratory scenes.